Michael Boyle : Can someone please tell me why, or if, I should care about the newly-beta-released Google Web APIs?

Despite the fact that I've spent a good chunk of the last 24 hours writing Perl code to deal with the API, I too have been asking much the same question. Here's one possible answer : you can use the API to write a search interface for your website in a handful of lines...

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Me : Net::Google.pm 0.2

Finished adding all but one method (restrict) and rigged things so that you can request more than 10 results transparently. Still need to add hooks to deal with boolean searching and magic query strings. I will try and finish those up before I upload the package to the CPAN. see also : WWW::Search::Google.pm Oh yeah, this could easily be written by tweaking the code in rss2blogger to fetch queries instead of RSS feeds.